Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Motto: Incipit Vita Nova (Start New Life)
Established 1927
Type: Public
Endowment: R$ 685.964.440,45
Rector: Ronaldo Tadêu Pena
Staff: 4,445
Undergraduates: 22,202
Postgraduates: 10,490
Location: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Campus: Urban, 8,794,767 square meters
Website: www.ufmg.br

The Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais or "UFMG") is a public university (and therefore it does not charge any tuition for the enrolled students) located in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The students are admitted through yearly exams called the vestibular.

UFMG is one of Brazil's five largest universities. It offers 48 different undergraduate courses, including an extremely sought-after Medicine course, traditional options such as Law and Economics, plus a handful of Engineering options and a wide array of Science and Art courses. It also offers 48 PhD programs, 58 master programs, 57 diplomas and 37 medical residence programs, totalling 35,324 students.

The current president of UFMG is Prof. Ronaldo Tadeu Pena. Famous former students include the ex-president Juscelino Kubitschek, the writer, medical doctor and diplomat João Guimarães Rosa, the plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy, the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade and the pop singers Samuel Rosa and Fernanda Takai.

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[edit] Location

UFMG is located on the north part of Belo Horizonte, in the neighborhood of Pampulha, near Pampulha Domestic Airport and Mineirão stadium. The university has 8.794.767 square meters (built area of 592.053 square meters) and is divided in three campii (Pampulha Campus, Health Campus and Rural Sciences Institute). Inside the Pampulha Campus there is a federal institute for Nuclear Research — the CDTN — which has 38 buildings, 50 laboratories and includes a 250 kW research Nuclear Reactor built in 1960 called TRIGA. There is also an extensive area of secondary forest known as the Estação Ecologica ("Ecological Station"), where many university scientists carry out research; this is the largest "green" area within the city boundaries, and is home to several endemic insect species.

[edit] History of UFMG

In 1898, the Ouro Preto Faculty of Law was transferred to Belo Horizonte, the new state capital. A few new unconnected faculties would appear later: in 1907, the Free School of Dentistry; in 1911, the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Engineering, and a course in pharmacy attached to the Free School of Dentistry.

In 1927, these four schools merged to form the UMG – the University of Minas Gerais, a private institution subsidized by the state government. The UMG remained in the state sphere until 1949, when it was made federal. The current name – UFMG – was not adopted until 1965.

At the time of federalization, the schools of architecture, philosophy and economics were already integrated in the university. Its expansion progressed, creating the schools of nursing (1950), veterinary science (1961), information science (1962), music (1962) and physical education (1969).

In 1968, a university reform profoundly altered the structure of UFMG. The Faculty of Philosophy spawned multiple institutions. Thus were born the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Institute of Biological Sciences, the Institute of Exact Sciences, the Institute of Geosciences and the Faculties of Literature and Education.

A further five courses have been established recently: agronomy, theater, control and automation engineering, computing mathematics, and phonoaudiology.

[edit] Architecture

Most buildings on campus are massive concrete structures built during the last 30 years using a proprietary system for concrete structure construction designed to make constructions cheap and fast. All designs are by a group of architects that work for the University City Hall. The buildings try to convey a modern style. Some of the older buildings need repairs.

The streets inside the campus (Pampulha) were all cobblestone, which have been slowly substituted for pavement. The University City Hall, which is an exceptions for the lack of architectural interest of the campus, was designed by Eduardo Mendes Guimarães Júnior and inaugurated in 1962. It has been recently protected by a municipal law (which protected various buildings in Pampulha district). Inside the building there is a gigantic panel by the famous local artist Yara Tupinambá. A second massive panel (built on concrete) on the FUNDEP building is also by Tupinambá.

[edit] UFMG in numbers

Number of vacancies: 4,594
Research groups: 547
National patents: 128
International patents: 24
Publications: 9,077
Undergraduate students: 22,202
Medical Residents: 285
Master Students: 3,470
PhD Students: 2,096
Total students: 35,324
Teachers: 2,446
Campuses: 3
Academic units: 21
Total units: 44
Libraries: 28
Books:707,000
Number of students which take the admission exams yearly: 73,827
Average Ratio of applications/admission: 15,8
Number of admissions/year: 4,674

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